Click2History - Child Labor: An American Pictorial History, Lobbying For Children - Chapter 4

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>CHILD LABOR</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 4 - LOBBYING FOR CHILDREN</font></p> </font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Members of the National Child Labor Committee <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c03000/3c03500/3c03503r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>lobbied</b></a> for change and produced <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c20000/3c24000/3c24400/3c24421r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>poster exhibits</b></a> urging protection of children. But even sentiments expressed in those posters - which were created to help the youth of America - reflect harsh expectations.</p><ul> <li>"Every child <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c20000/3c26000/3c26700/3c26795r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>should work</b></a> but the work must develop not deaden"</li><br><br> <li>"Working children go to school <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c20000/3c26000/3c26700/3c26796r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>part</b></a> of the time"</li><br><br> <li>"A Child’s <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a03000/3a03500/3a03545r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Creed</b></a>"</li><br><br> <li>Child Labor Reform <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c03000/3c03500/3c03502r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>poster</b></a> advocates for compulsory education so that every child "shall have some chance to develop the best that is in him."</li><br><br> <li>National Child Labor Committee <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c03000/3c03500/3c03504r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>exhibit panel</b></a> shows a map, developed with census data, depicting children who work in the various states. It asks the question: "What have you done for them?"</li></ul> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="child_labor_ch3.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="child_labor_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="child_labor_ch5.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>